how lucky we are as a civilization that technology has not yet made a similar punitive equation feasible for time as it is for money. i.e., imagine if it worke

how lucky we are as a civilization that technology has not yet made a similar punitive equation feasible for time as it is for money. i.e., imagine if it worked this way for penalty of incarceration, where your mugger forfeits 10 years of their life, and transfers them to you, extending your own by the same amount - less attorneys' fees, of course.